Byrd
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Badge ripped from an Apple II and stuck down I'd say. My 21'" iMac has a 512K badgeIsnt it just a badge put there?
Badge ripped from an Apple II and stuck down I'd say. My 21'" iMac has a 512K badgeIsnt it just a badge put there?
Hm. Yesterday I just used my Mac Plus to format some disks. They are double density disks. When I inserted the blank ones it gave me the option to format them either single sided or double sided. I chose single side and they formatted to just under 400k. Those will work in a 400k drive, right?I read last night that to format a 3.5" double density diskette to 400K single sided in an 800K double sided drive or to format a 3.5" double density disketter to 400K in a 1440K double sided drive, hold down the <Option> key (while inserting a blank, unformatted / uninitialised diskette in the drive). You will need to using a sufficiently old release of the operating system on a sufficiently old Macintosh at the time.
Yes. The "400k" drive is 400K because it only used one side (vs. both in an 800k drive), and by default MacOS always formats 400k disks as MFS. (IE, the original 128k-compatible Mac filesystem.)I chose single side and they formatted to just under 400k. Those will work in a 400k drive, right?
You can get around that by putting a piece of tape over the density detect hole. (That's the hole in an HD disk opposite of the write protect switch.) The real problem with using 1.44mb floppies as low density is they're just not particularly reliable when formatted like that. *How* reliable depends on the media, the drives, the phase of the moon... etc. In my experience my M0106 drive seems to "mostly work" with HD disks, but the internal 400k drive on my 400k is much more skeptical of them.if you ever put a 1440-formatted-as-400 or a 1440-formatted-as-800 into a 1440KB drive, the operating system will report the diskette is unreadable and ask you to initialise it, again.
I am going to need to find a place for my Appel IIc. I don't want to replace the Mac Plus because its such a nice complete system with the HD20. I could put it where my Macbook Pro is right now, but then I would have nowhere to use my internet capable modern machine, lolThat is an awesome setup - I need less clutter... or a display area. Yours looks so nice!
What machines do you have? I have found that my corner desk is very versatile for displaying the machines.That is an awesome setup - I need less clutter... or a display area. Yours looks so nice!
At the BASIC prompt (which from memory looked like either ] or > type PR#6 Enter to boot from 5.25" internal drive, or PR#5 to boot from external 3.5" Unidisk (if it has the updated MON ROM, the original ROM in earlier //c shipped did not have the intelligence to recognise and use 3.5" diskette drives).When I turn the machine on, it just says "Check Disk Drive," even if I put a disk in it. If I have a disk in it before I turn it on, it loads the disk. Is there a command/button combo to get it to read a disk I insert AFTER I turn it on?
Any list of key combos/commands would be useful and appreciated